Keyword: mental illness

Beyond Hoarding

5.8

2019

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Beyond Hoarding takes a fresh look at hoarding through the experiences of people afflicted with this compulsion. Mental health experts shed light on this psychiatric disorder which is treatable.

Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh

7.6

2019

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Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interludes that provide insight into his mental health journey.

No Alternative

6.5

2018

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This coming-of-age drama blasts open the world of grunge-era teenagers in the early 90s.

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

7.2

2014

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Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The result is two remarkable documentaries: the first, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible, premiered at Hot Docs in the spring of 2013 and follows the story of a violent patient released into the community. The second film, Out of Mind, Out of Sight, returns to the Brockville Mental Health Centre to profile four patients, two men and two women, as they struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.

The Blood Is at the Doorstep

8.4

2017

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After Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a quest for answers, justice and reform.

The Secret She Kept

6.8

2016

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Based on ReShonda Tate Billingsleys novel of the same name, The Secret She Kept, a successful magazine executive marries a driven lawyer, whos on the cusp of a major promotion, only to discover that his wife is severely bi-polar. The movie explores the meaning of love and the vow of in sickness and in health.

Bloody Wednesday

3.9

1988

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Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.

No Letting Go

6.8

2015

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What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

An Audience of Chairs

5.3

2018

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A mother living with mental illness struggles to cope after losing custody of her two daughters.

Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain

7.4

2016

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Nearly 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and yet little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains. Ride the Tiger tells the stories of accomplished individuals who have been diagnosed with bipolar, and explores treatment options.

Feed Your Head

8.2

2010

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What causes mental illness? Do our thoughts, moods, and behaviours depend upon what we eat? Psychiatrists Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in Saskatchewan in 1951. They set out to prove that the symptoms of schizophrenia could be controlled with healthy, unprocessed food and large doses of vitamins. 60 years later, it looks like they may have been right.